No. 11 Men's Lacrosse Drops Ancient Eight Opener to No. 17 Brown

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Jeff Cohen and Terry
White each scored four goals, and Harry Krieger made nine saves,
but the 11th-ranked Harvard men’s lacrosse team fell to No.
17 Brown by a score of 13-11 before 1,705 fans at Harvard Stadium
Saturday afternoon. Alex White won six faceoffs for the
Crimson, which drops to 4-2 overall and 0-1 in the Ivy
League.

After grabbing the game’s first goal on a shot by Dean
Gibbons early on in the first quarter, Harvard struggled for the
remainder of the first quarter, as Brown (3-1, 1-0 Ivy League) went
ahead, 5-1, after the first 15 minutes. In the second, the
trio of Cohen, Kevin Vaughan and Terry White found the back of the
net, as the Crimson cut the deficit to three goals, 7-4, at
halftime.

In the third quarter, Travis Burr connected with White for a goal
at 8:30, as Harvard moved within two, 7-5. The Bears,
however, netted four of the next five scores to regain a five-goal
advantage, 11-6. With time winding down in the quarter, Jeff
Molinari notched a goal off a turnover, and Cohen added a score in
the early stages of the fourth, making it 11-8.

After Brown’s Andrew Feinberg ended Harvard’s
two-goal run at 9:58, Cohen and White combined to score the next
three goals, pulling the Crimson within one, 12-11, with only 2:08
to play. With time winding down, Feinberg tallied his fourth
goal of the game with 53 seconds left on the clock.

Harvard held the final count in shots, 39-32, while the Bears
owned the edge in ground balls, 35-24, and faceoffs won,
16-11. Brown also scored the only man-up goal of the game,
going 1-for-4, while Harvard was held scoreless on one
chance.

The Crimson remains at home to host Dartmouth Saturday, March 27
at 3 p.m.